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Tuesday 3 January 2012
The Perls of 2011
Also, I'm only going to write about Perl 5. If you're looking for a Perl 6 retrospective, Moritz Lenz already did a very nice job with that :)
Apologies if I missed something - it's really hard to keep track of all the wonderful projects and conferences going on! Make sure to add them in the comments section below.
So, without further ado, here are the "Perls of 2011".
Some Perl & CPAN stats
According to Ohloh, over the course of 2011 there were nothing short of 5975 commits to the main Perl 5 repository. Wow! For comparison, Ruby had 3153 commits and PHP, 4461. We were a little short from our friends in the Python community, though, which had 6974 commits. Not bad, huh?
The Perl 5 bugtracking system reports a total of 915 tickets created in 2011, and 928 tickets closed in that same period. That was close, but the awesome folks at p5p once again managed to keep the stats positive :)
By the way, can you guess how many perl releases we had in 2011? 1? 3? more? 10? Try 21. Twenty one, including development and stable releases!
One of the coolest ones was, of course, perl 5.14, which brought us Unicode 6.0 support, new regex flags, the sugary "package Foo { }" syntax, improved IPv6 support and, as if these weren't enough, it uses even less memory and CPU than previous releases!
How about CPAN? 16197 distributions uploaded, of which 1873 were brand new!
The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures had 5 entries tagged "perl" in 2011, of which only 2 were actually regarding perl itself (namely, CVE-2011-0761 and CVE-2011-1487). Again, for comparison, python also had 2 records, ruby had 7, and php had 36.
Perl's commitment to stability and security was showcased in late december, when Alexander "alech" Klink and Julian "zeri" Wälde delivered a very nice talk at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress security conference in Berlin, entitled "Efficient Denial of Service Attacks on Web Application Platforms". Their work builds on top of an attack vector described in perlsec and fixed back in 2003 (the long-since-deprecated 5.8.1), and shows the issue affects almost every other popular language for the web, including Python, Java, PHP, ASP.NET and JavaScript. Ruby fixed their code in 2008 and people should be fine as long as they use CRuby 1.9 and above.
The King is dead. Long live the King!
For the past two years Jesse Vincent (obra) was our beloved Perl 5 Pumpking. Back in october he passed the torch to the incredibly prolific Ricardo Signes (rjbs), who will undoubtedly make us all very proud! A huge thanks is in order to both of them for the remarkable work they did last year - and that they'll undoubtedly keep on doing.
TPF Grants & Donations
Dave Mitchell once again did an astounding work with his "Fixing Perl 5 Core Bugs". Last year alone he worked more than 470 hours, closing 29 tickets. Great job, Dave!
In the middle of the year Nicholas Clark jumped on the wagon with his "Improving Perl 5" grant, approved with praise. So far Nick reported more than 380 hours of work, and tons of code to make Perl development even smoother.
None of this would be possible without the wonderful support from several companies that are proud to use Perl, giving out not only their public praise but also donating infrastructure and money to help further develop the language. This year we saw some incredible support from Booking.com, cPanel, Dijkmat, Liquid Web, Net-A-Porter, the Oslo Perl Mongers, perl-services.de, and the Vienna Perl Mongers.
Google Summer of Code (GSoC)
Every year The Perl Foundation participates on the Google Summer of Code program, and 2011 was no exception. This time, 6 students were accepted and all of them made their mentors proud - 100% success rate! A huge thanks is in order for everyone that participated.
Google Code-in
Another great initiative from Google in 2011 was the Code-in program, aimed at 13-17 year old school/college students with the idea of getting them involved with open source. The project is still running but we can already see some impressive results, such as over 135 completed tasks.
These numbers are great, and show that there's a big niche for Perl in schools and undergrad courses. I had the opportunity to teach Perl to undergrads in a one-week course at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the receptivity was incredible! If you have the chance to give a short free workshop at your local college/university, I highly recommend you do so :)
Conferences! Conferences! Conferences!
All over the world, the vibrant Perl open-source community and their corporate sponsors filled the year 2011 with conferences showing the best modules, tools, techniques and design patterns, talking about a lot of bleeding-edge features and how to make Perl help with innovation and productivity for your enterprise.
January: Orlando Perl Workshop (OPW - a.k.a. The Perl Oasis)
February: Frozen Perl, Bulgarian Perl Workshop
March: Dutch Perl Workshop
April: Toronto Perl Workshop, QA Hackathon
May: São Paulo Perl Workshop
June: Nordic Perl Workshop, French Perl Workshop, YAPC::NA
August: YAPC::Europe
September: Italian Perl Workshop, Portuguese Perl Workshop
October: Ukrainian Perl Workshop, Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, Belgian Perl Workshop, German Perl Workshop, YAPC::Asia
November: YAPC::Brasil, TwinCity Perl Workshop, London Perl Workshop
December: Russian Perl Workshop
Only July had no perl-centric conference. Quite impressive! And we're not even counting general conferences in which we participated such as FOSDEM, FISL, OSDC, OSCON, or even Perl Mongers tech meetings. Speaking of which...
Perl Mongers
The number of active Perl Mongers group just keeps growing and growing. In 2011 alone, 15 new groups were spawned! Good luck to all our friends from AtlanticCity.pm (US), Makati.pm (PH), Bordeaux.pm (FR), HradecKralove.pm (CZ), Goiania.pm (BR), Petropolis.pm (BR), Brno.pm (CZ), Logan.pm (US), Tolyatti.pm (US), LGBT.pm, SouthernOregon.pm (US), Plzen.pm (CZ), Sendai.pm (JP), WestVirginia.pm (US) and Kerman.pm (IR).
With these new additions, our tiny planet hosts 251 active Perl Mongers groups :)
Prominent Perl People in 2011
This year we had some well-deserved White Camel Award winners: Leo Lapworth, Daisuke Maki and Andrew Shitov. Congratulations and thanks for making the Perl world better!
There are several others whom also deserve a huge praise for last year's work, amongst them Mark Keating of Shadowcat/EPO/TPF, who is tirelessly working on quality Perl marketing; Gábor Szabó who started the Perl Weekly mailing list and a series of Video Tutorials; and Thiago Rondon, who did huge things for the OpenData initiative, leading us (and Perl) into projects that added a lot of transparency to the Brazilian government and even resulted in a W3C Brazil OpenData Developer's Manual (of which I'm proud to have been a part of) and in winning the Latin America OpenData hackathon.
A couple of new, fun and downright useful websites were born in 2011, including Perl News by Dave Cross, Github-Meets-CPAN by Johannes Plunien; and PrePan, by Kentaro Kuribayashi. Important to notice that learn.perl.org was relaunched with a beautiful look and a lot of updated content. Great job, everyone!
But there are also the silent workers, the ones that are mostly behind the scenes but whose efforts were paramount for the Perl 5 ecosystem. People like Karen Pauley, president of The Perl Foundation; and Barbie, who worked really hard in keeping the incredible CPAN Testers service up and running.
In fact, a *HUGE* thanks are due to everybody involved in CPAN Testers in 2011: Barbie, Dave Golden, Chris Williams, David Cantrell, Slaven Rezić and just about everyone else. I had the great opportunity to help Dave Golden upgrade the cpan-reporter module to use metabase and I could see how intricate the whole thing is. By the way, did you know that in 2011 CPAN Testers crossed the barrier of over 1 million test reports in a single month? That's incredible!
Speaking of which, what would be of Perl 5 without its core developers? Several of them were already mentioned and praised here, but you can check the full list of contributors in the AUTHORS file, or in perldelta for a more recent list. This year we had the pleasure of seeing commits from Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, H.Merijn Brand, Karl Williamson, Claudio Ramirez, Vladimir Timofeev, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu and many, many others. Thanks, guys!
Perl Games
The Perl gaming scene got yet another massive overhaul in 2011. Coming from all the hard work Kartik Thakore, Tobias Leich and everyone else at the SDL Perl project put in 2010, game development in Perl has never been this easy or fun.
The SDL Perl Manual was finished early in the year, and we were having so much fun we threw together the SDL Perl Game Contest in march, resulting in a total of 16 new games written from scratch in just one month!
The year also saw the coming of a Box2D wrapper for Perl, letting us add some fast physics to games and simulations.
But the best was yet to come. Construder, a jaw dropping 3D game created by Perl hacker Robin "elmex" Redeker, features futuristic settings with some nice graphics and an (almost) infinite world for you to build and play with. Make sure to check it out if you haven't already!
A Web of Perl
Perl's most widely adopted web frameworks also kept extremely busy, and 2011 marked some pretty cool releases and announcements:
Catalyst 5.9 was released back in august, incorporating Plack as its default Engine. This change benefits Catalyst significantly by reducing the amount of code inside the framework, getting upstream bug fixes in Plack, and automatically gaining support for any web server which a PSGI compliant handler is written for.
Mojolicious saw a total of 122(!) releases, including its 2.0 one, and now features updated websockets support, documentation enhancements and several asynchronous/non-blocking features. You can check out the official Mojolicious 2011 retrospective for the full monty.
The nice folks of Dancer started working on a massive core rewrite that will help the project tremendously. Among the changes being made, there will be no more globals in the core, 100% object-oriented backend, better scoping for sub-applications, and a better design overall.
Advent Calendars
The tradition remains, and the 2011 Perl Advent Calendars are filled with great content ranging from beginner tips to advanced hacks. The Japanese Perl Community once again delivered several high-quality articles in 9 different tracks, while the Brazilian Perl Community scattered their great articles throughout the two months of the Equinox.
O'Reilly has been busy in 2011, with the updated 6th edition of Learning Perl - the Llama - by Randal Schwartz, brian d foy and Tom Phoenix, and Johan Vromans' handy Perl Pocket Reference. They're also getting ready for the 4th edition of Programming Perl - the Camel - to be released in early 2012. Heck, at O'Reilly they even used Perl to pick their Secret Santa :)
Speaking of upcoming titles, Ovid's Beginning Perl and chromatic's Little Plack Book are ones to keep an eye for. Who knows, maybe I'll get to talk a bit more about them in the 2012 wrap-up? I look forward to it!
Rise of The MetaCPAN
If you were one of the early adopters, you know MetaCPAN was actually born on late 2010 (november 3rd, to be precise). The project had some ambitious goals: provide a free and open sourced alternative search engine to the ever-glorious CPAN. But in 2011 it became more. So much more.
Moritz "Mo" Onken, a student at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), applied for the GSoC and quickly became a hero. Sure, he already had several years of Perl background, but what Clinton Gormley, Olaf Alders and himself achieved in 2011 exceeded all expectations and revolutionized the Perl world.
MetaCPAN is not only a sophisticated and fast CPAN search engine, but also offers a full featured REST API that lets you build on top of it making all sorts of complex search queries for extracting data from and about the CPAN. Another (very) important aspect: an active and vibrant community that actually encourages people to send patches fixing bugs and adding new features.
Featured Perl Modules
Wrapping up the retrospective, I should go about some of the cool new modules that spawned in 2011. This is not meant to be a thorough list, just a small snippet for your viewing pleasure:
Mason 2 - The traditional HTML::Mason distribution received a major overhaul and became just "Mason". The new distribution is being very actively developed and has a much more modern architecture. Check out the changes and give it a try!
dip - this nifty new tool offers dynamic instrumentation like DTrace, using aspects. Marcel Grünauer builds on top of Adam Kennedy's awesome Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) Perl interface (that also reached 1.0 in 2011) to provide a tool that lets you change application's behavior without actually touching the source code. Very nice!
Lucy - David Wheeler released a nice Perl wrapper for Apache Lucy, a high-performance, modular full-text search engine library that assimilated the KinoSearch codebase and community.
Data::Printer - I don't like to talk about stuff I wrote doing general retrospectives, but I'm going to open an exception here. Data::Printer provides a simple and powerful - not to mention, colorful! - way to view your data structures. It's highly customizable and if you ever used Data::Dumper to view variable contents on the screen, you should give it a try :-)
There were also some visible trends on CPAN last year:
Towards a lighter Moose: everybody loves Moose (which also reached 2.0 in 2011!), but sometimes you just want - or think you just want - the sugary OO syntax, not the full-blown object system. Or maybe your particular environment doesn't let you install it, and you still need some small piece of it to make everything better. In 2011 there were a lot of uploads for Moose and Mouse alternatives, including Moo, Mo, and Mite. This definitely shows an itch that needs some scratching.
On a somewhat related note, Stevan Little is developing a proposal and a functioning prototype for a Meta Object Protocol, or MOP, to be perhaps included in a future version of Perl 5. Comments are welcome!
Sysadmin tools: Matt S. Trout took the time to bolt some modules together and bring us Tak, a multi-host remote control over ssh. But he wasn't the only one, and new sysadmin tools and modules sprouted all over the perlverse. Some fine examples include helm, providing easy server and cluster automation, and the great Rex (or, rather, "(R)?ex"), that lets you manage all your boxes from a central point through the complete process of configuration management and software deployment. Check out rexify.org for a quick glimpse of some of its features!
Simple ORMs: another trend in 2011 was to create simple DBI wrappers providing ORM-ish features, resulting in lightweight frameworks somewhere between DBI and DBIx::Class. Among the new distributions are Teng and DBIx::Sunny.
Dependency Managers: Finally, following Ingy's "only" pragma from back in 2003, a lot of effort has been put into making new and improved dependency managers for Perl applications and distributions. Miyagawa's carton and Gugod's perlrocks deserve particular attention.
That's it for this 2011 Perl retrospective. Hope you guys had as much of a nice time reading it as I had writing it. Let 2012 be the year of the Velociraptor!!
8 comments:
- Anonymous3 January 2012 at 07:27
One little correction. Perl News wasn't just me. Leo Lapworth was (and still is) just as involved as I am. And we've also had a lot of help from Mark Keating and brian d foy.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous3 January 2012 at 08:44
Great info..thanks for sharing. I have re-shared in my blog. I really liked the idea of giving free workshop at your local college/university. I feel Perl programming teaching is lacking at college level (at least here in India) so free workshop might help to generate interest.
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The bleating lamb's
chatty tongue
now silenced.
Lie still.
Cat caught you.
And you are
Still lying?
Menu planning has its ups and downs
Initial concept sketch: Tongue Baked in Salt served in the Dining Room with Blood Red Summer Pudding for dessert |
Prepping for the dinner scene, I hand-shape the tongues individually out of a modified Kibbeh recipe – bulgar ground with beef stock and mild spices. I make them bigger than lamb tongues because I want them to look like children's tongues – out of the mouth of babes. (FBI babes?) Then I steam them and shade them with food coloring. I make 60 which luckily, turns out to be exactly the right amount. If the director had asked for one more take I would have been in trouble. Sometimes you get lucky…
Toto, we are not in Norton country
Two days before the shoot, another script change that has Hannibal garnishing wine jelly with Norton grapes.A breadbasket I fashioned from a leaf and a horn gets kicked to the curb (too big for the shot) - in the background are several trays of little tongues waiting to go on camera. |
Now, to get to the meat of the matter, the recipe for this week's episode:
Silver Tongue Devils
Serves 4 small portions
- Make the Duxelles: In a very large sauté pan over medium high heat, melt butter and add onions, frying til they begin to soften. Add the chopped mushrooms and saute, stirring frequently, just until mushrooms release their juices.
- Add wine and boil until liquid is reduced to 2 or 3 Tbsp. Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper and balsamic. Set aside to cool.
- To make the packets, place a circle of foil on working surface. In the centre of the lower half of the circle of foil, place 1 slice of tongue, top with 1 Tbsp Duxelle, another slice of tongue and more Duxelle. Add another layer if your tongue slices are small. To close up the packet, bring the upper half of the circle of foil over so the upper and lower circumferences meet. Crimp the edges together well, making the seal as airtight as possible and taking care to leave at least one inch of space all around the tongue. This is where the aromatic steam will build up during the baking, puffing out your foil packets. Repeat with remaining foil sheets. Refrigerate until 30 minutes before serving. Reserve remaining Duxelles to serve on the side.
- Twenty minutes before serving time, place the foil packets on a baking sheet and bake in a pre-heated oven at 350° for 15 minutes. Reheat Duxelles. Plate the foil packets unopened. When guests open their packets at the table, a lovely puff of rosemary-scented steam will rise to whet their appetites.

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Blue Blazes: US Senators Versus Iran.
December 28, 2013 by Staff
Filed under News, Opinion, Politics, Weekly Columns
(ThyBlackMan.com) This is America. This is the land of the free and home of the brave. In the good old U.S. of A., you have the right the say what you want to say. Here, you can believe what you want to believe – even if your belief is as wrong as five left feet. For those of you who feel that my status as a registered Democrat somehow makes me less inclined to take the Democratic Party to task, you're in for a treat with this column. There is foolishness afoot, ladies and gentlemen; and I am quite perplexed by it.
I need somebody to explain to me precisely why a contingent of United States Senators are actively courting war with Iran. And I need to understand why fifteen Democratic Senators are openly defying the President and working alongside Republicans to torpedo the delicate agreement currently in place which has frozen Iran's nuclear program. What in blue blazes is going on?
Two weeks ago, Iranian officials said if the Senate moved forward with its bill, the current nuclear deal would die. Well, they are… and it might.
Here's a roll call. Those aforementioned Democratic Senators in alphabetic order are: Mark Begich (AK), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Cory Booker (NJ), Ben Cardin (MD), Bob Casey (PA), Chris Coons (DE), Joe Donnelly (IN), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Kay Hagan (NC), Mary Landrieu (LA), Joe Manchin (WV), Mark Pryor (AR), Charles Schumer (NY), and Mark Warner (VA). Robert Menendez (NJ) is the sponsor of proposed legislation he hopes will be acted upon in January.
If Mr. Menendez and his colleagues have their way, America may be relegated to military options in stopping Iran's nuclear program. We all know what that means. That calls for airstrikes. That calls for boots on the ground. That could easily mean more casualties and more fatalities for the brave men and women of America's armed forces.
Consider all the blood and treasure America lost in Iraq. Contemplate all the blood and treasure America has lost thus far in Afghanistan. After the Obama administration avoided the loss of blood and treasure in Syria, here we are. It's the new normal: moving backwards instead of continuing to move forward.
The burning question isn't who. I totally understand the enthusiasm of Republican Senators to deep-six the November 24th agreement negotiated in Geneva, Switzerland between six global powers (the U.S., Britain, China, France, Germany, and Russia) and Iran. The GOP's Senators don't like President Obama, don't trust him, and seize upon every opportunity to refuse working with him. Even if they wanted to work with the President, they cannot do so for fear of reprisal against themselves by their own constituents. Their base wouldn't have that. Folks, the burning question is actually why.
Democrats have historically viewed this nation's war powers as something to be utilized when it's absolutely necessary; and purposefully even then. Democrats don't actively seek out war. Democrats don't discard diplomacy; especially when diplomatic efforts have been successful. Since when do American Senators arbitrarily decide not to honor an agreement a President's administration has negotiated in good faith? I get why Republican Senators are on the warpath. I do not get why certain Democratic Senators have joined them there. If I'm wrong about this deal, I'll admit it publicly. Would they?
The only human being I can think of who is pleased about this American-made legislative mess is Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. In his position, he's supposed to watch Iran like a hawk. Make no mistake about it: Mr. Netanyahu would love to take out Iran. He's made that crystal clear on countless occasions. He openly opposed the nuclear agreement reached with Iran which temporarily lifted crippling economic sanctions again it in exchange for halting its nuclear program for six months. He doesn't care if Iran compiles or not. Mr. Netanyahu wants to hit Iran – hard and soon. How ironic that our Senators are backing him rather than the American President.
Mr. Menendez's proposed Senate bill has nineteen Republican co-sponsors. It intends to levy draconian new sanctions on Iran unless that country's leaders formally agree to abandon all uranium enrichment. That goal is a pipe dream. Iran will never comply with such a request. The United Nations currently has inspectors in Iran with full, unfettered access to every one of their nuclear power plants.
Those inspectors have the expertise and the hardware to quickly determine if Iran is enriching uranium for nuclear weapons development. If they are, we could slap even more devastating sanctions on Iran. If they are, the civilized world would join Israel and the U.S. in preventing Iran from constructing an A-bomb; even by force. The Geneva agreement – however delicate – is working, though. Why not wait and give peace a chance, Senators? Blue blazes.
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30-gallon polyethylene tank fits into the existing spare tire cavity of virtually all American-made pickup trucks, doubling fuel capacity without encroaching on bed space.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho—Titan Fuel Tanks, a leading manufacturer of high-performance, engineered aftermarket fuel tanks, announced that it will introduce its new cross-linked polyethylene, Spare Tire Auxiliary Fuel System at the 2013 SEMA Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The innovative 30-gallon tank and fuel transfer control unit have a patent pending and will be shown to the industry for the first time in Titan's booth 35111 in the Upper South Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The first-of-its-kind fuel system is designed to repurpose the space commonly used to stow a vehicle's spare tire and fits most American-made diesel pickup trucks made after 1999. The tank essentially doubles the fuel capacity of most pickups and, unlike in-bed auxiliary fuel tank solutions, its underbody location means that it has no impact on the truck bed's storage capacity.
The lightweight, one-size-fits-all 30-pound tank is easy for one person to install and includes mounting hardware, a filler kit and an electronic fuel transfer control unit that can be operated from the comfort of the cab. Titan has engineered the system for fast installation, and all components come in a standardized package.
"Titan's new Spare Tire Auxiliary Fuel System has tremendous potential, and is the most creative and efficient use of space I have seen," said Kyle Shiminski, category director, Keystone Automotive Operations. "We are very excited to be one of the first to be stocking their product in our warehouses. The lightweight material, ease of installation and concealed mounting location make Titan's system an excellent universal solution for adding fuel capacity."
Titan's single-tank design accommodates all applications, while mounting hardware unique to the host vehicle's make and model allows the tank to securely attach to the cross members of the vehicle's frame. Mounting brackets attach easily and are completely noninvasive, requiring no cutting, welding or drilling. Like the spare tire it replaces, a mounting stud slides through the middle of the tank, which is then secured with a mounting plate.
"Diesel truck owners are always interested in extending their range and fuel capacity without compromising space in their trucks cargo bed and Titan's new spare tire tank is an innovative solution to this challenge," said Paul Nishanian, executive vice president for Xtreme Diesel Performance (XDP). "XDP stocks a complete range of Titan fuel tanks and we're excited about expanding our Titan offering with their new spare tire tank."
Titan's electronic fuel transfer control unit gives the vehicle operator total flexibility in managing the use of extra fuel capacity. The additional fuel can be held in reserve or transferred on the go and as the need arises. The controller's illuminated user interface indicates the tank's fuel level in increments of one-tenth and features a single-touch button that starts the fuel transfer sequence. With one touch, fuel begins transferring from the Spare Tire Fuel Tank to the vehicle's primary fuel tank and continues to flow until it is automatically stopped by the controller or the button is touched again. A red LED on the controller illuminates during the fuel transfer process.
"This new tank is available at Summit Racing Equipment now, for any diesel truck owner who wants to add extra fuel capacity," said Jeff Winters, chief marketing officer, Summit Racing Equipment. "In fact, using this new tank in conjunction with one of the other Titan auxiliary tanks we offer, a truck owner can have up to 100 gallons of diesel fuel onboard, all in underbody locations."
Titan's new Spare Tire Auxiliary Fuel System fits most full-sized, American-made, diesel pickup trucks and its polymer material is highly resistant to the corrosive effects of diesel and bio-diesel fuels as well as fuel additives that have been known to degrade the linings of steel diesel fuel tanks.
The tanks come with a universal filler kit featuring a brushed aluminum door that can be installed on the vehicle's exterior sidewall or on an inside wall of the truck bed. The tanks include a rollover vent valve and a vent hose.
Titan's entire line of polymer replacement and auxiliary fuel tanks are formed from military-grade cross-linked polyethylene (XLHDPE). The rugged polyethylene material is 200 times less thermal conductive than steel, and the polymer's insulating properties eliminate condensation, boosting mileage efficiency by keeping fuel cooler and closer to optimal combustion temperatures than metallic tanks. All Titan fuel tanks come with a limited five-year warranty.
Titan's tanks are designed by a staff of fuel tank engineers. Titan serves fleets and other end-users of Ford, GMC, Chevrolet and Dodge diesel pickup trucks. Titan uses finite element analysis (FEA) in its design process, enabling it to simulate a wide array of dynamic stresses on systems and components. Virtual impact testing, off-road conditions and accelerated aging can all be simulated using FEA. For safety purposes, Titan requires that all trucks using their new Spare Tire Auxiliary Fuel System be equipped with a heavy class-5 hitch, standard on most full-sized diesels.
Titan's distributors in the United States, Canada and Australia are expected to have the new polymer Spare Tire Auxiliary Fuel System in stock on or about December 1, 2013. For those who consider spare tires critical, dealers will also offer a Titan kit that allows the displaced spare tire to be vertically mounted in the truck bed.
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Based in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Titan Fuel Tanks engineers and manufactures ultra-durable, extra-capacity
aftermarket fuel tanks made from advanced military-grade, cross-linked polyethylene. Titan offers a broad selection of replacement fuel tanks, designed to seamlessly integrate with and extend the fuel capacity and driving reach of a broad range of truck models, including Ford, GMC, Chevrolet and Dodge vehicles. Titan serves the aftermarket fuel tank needs of the United States, Canada and Australia, and is recognized as an innovator in aftermarket fuel tank design. Titan's engineering staff employs the latest technology in its design process, including finite element analysis (FEA). To learn more about Titan Fuel Tanks, please visit: http://www.titanfueltanks.com
aftermarket fuel tanks made from advanced military-grade, cross-linked polyethylene. Titan offers a broad selection of replacement fuel tanks, designed to seamlessly integrate with and extend the fuel capacity and driving reach of a broad range of truck models, including Ford, GMC, Chevrolet and Dodge vehicles. Titan serves the aftermarket fuel tank needs of the United States, Canada and Australia, and is recognized as an innovator in aftermarket fuel tank design. Titan's engineering staff employs the latest technology in its design process, including finite element analysis (FEA). To learn more about Titan Fuel Tanks, please visit: http://www.titanfueltanks.com
Titan is a trademark of Supertanks, LLC.


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Brand owner's broad covenant not to sue may render invalidity counterclaims moot.
On January 9, the U.S. Supreme Court in Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc.[1] held that a plaintiff trademark owner's dismissal of its infringement claims, coupled with the grant of a broad and irrevocable covenant not to sue a competitor, could render the competitor's invalidity counterclaims moot. This holding clarifies the standard governing how counterclaims can be rendered moot in the event the underlying infringement claim is dropped. Intellectual property owners should take this standard into account when developing and refining their intellectual property enforcement strategies.
Nike, a well-known designer and manufacturer of athletic footwear, filed a trademark infringement suit in federal district court against Already, another designer and manufacturer of footwear, alleging that Already's "Sugars" and "Soulja Boys" shoe lines infringed and diluted Nike's trademark in its "Air Force 1" product configuration. Already denied Nike's allegations and filed a counterclaim alleging that Nike's Air Force 1 claimed trademark was invalid.
Eight months after filing its complaint, Nike concluded that "'Already's actions . . . no longer infringe or dilute the [Air Force 1 mark] at a level sufficient to warrant the substantial time and expense of continued litigation'" and issued a covenant not to sue.[2] In the covenant, Nike agreed not to assert any claim or demand against Already or any affiliated entity (including distributors and their employees and customers) based on any of Already's existing shoe designs or any future Already designs that constituted a "colorable imitation" of Already's current products. After issuing the covenant, Nike moved to dismiss both its infringement claim and Already's invalidity counterclaim on the ground that the covenant eliminated the existence of a case or controversy necessary for the survival of Already's counterclaim. Already argued that, even though Nike had agreed to refrain from suing Already, a case or controversy still existed because Already would still be injured by the continued existence of Nike's trademark registration. The trial court dismissed Already's counterclaim and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the trial court's decision. The Supreme Court granted certiorari.
The Supreme Court's Decision
The Supreme Court unanimously affirmed the decision of the Second Circuit, which dismissed as moot Already's counterclaim of trademark invalidity in light of Nike's broad covenant not to sue Already in the future. The district court held that the plaintiff's broad and irrevocable covenant not to sue removed the existence of an "actual case or controversy," an element necessary to demonstrate standing in federal court.
Article III of the Constitution prohibits federal courts from rendering advisory opinions or deciding legal disputes in the absence of an "actual case or controversy." The Supreme Court noted that an "actual controversy" must exist throughout the entirety of litigation, not just at the time the complaint is filed. A case becomes moot—and therefore no longer presents a case or controversy—when the issues presented are no longer live or when the parties no longer have a legally cognizable interest in the outcome. The Court held that the "voluntary cessation" doctrine applies when determining whether a declaratory judgment counterclaim is moot. Specifically, in this case, Nike bore the "formidable burden" of showing that another trademark infringement claim against Already was not reasonably likely to occur.[3]
The Court determined that Nike had overcome its formidable burden under the voluntary cessation doctrine. Specifically, the Court reviewed Nike's covenant and determined that it was sufficiently broad to render Already's counterclaim moot for the following reasons: it was unconditional and irrevocable; it applied to Already's past and current shoe designs, as well as future designs that were "colorable imitations"; it applied to its distributors and customers; and it prohibited Nike from not only filing a suit, but also from making any claim or demand. Because the Court was unable to imagine a scenario under which Nike could bring another Air Force 1 trademark infringement claim against Already (absent blatant counterfeiting), Already's invalidity counterclaim was held to be moot.
The Court's holding is consistent with its 2007 decision in MedImmune, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc.,[4] which liberalized declaratory judgment jurisdictional considerations. In MedImmune, the Court held that a genuine threat of enforcement of intellectual property rights that inhibits commercial activity may support standing for a declaratory judgment claim. In the Already case, the Court found that Nike's covenant eliminated any genuine threat of future enforcement by Nike.
Implications of the Court's Holding
The Already decision is important to all trademark owners, particularly with respect to developing and implementing enforcement strategies. One of the risks associated with bringing a trademark infringement claim is that the defendant might file a counterclaim for a declaratory judgment that the plaintiff's trademark is invalid. The Court's decision clarifies that a plaintiff can successfully have the counterclaim dismissed by issuing a broad covenant not to sue.
Whether a covenant not to sue will divest a federal court of Article III jurisdiction over an invalidity counterclaim depends on whether the breadth of the covenant renders the threat of future litigation between the same parties based on the same trademark remote or nonexistent. Although future cases will hinge on the specific underlying facts, the Supreme Court's opinion sets forth the general elements necessary for a sufficiently broad covenant, including that it (i) be unconditional and irrevocable; (ii) cover the defendant and related entities; (iii) cover not only all current and previous products, but also "colorable imitations"; and (iv) prohibit the plaintiff from making any future claims or demands with respect to the pertinent trademark.
Although a broad covenant not to sue may be desirable to obtain dismissal of a trademark invalidity counterclaim, the decision to issue such a covenant must be balanced against the risk that such covenants could negatively impact the strength and enforceability of the trademark in the future. For instance, depending on the facts, broad covenants not to sue on multiple occasions could result in the loss of trademark rights by the trademark owner or a decrease in the owner's ability to assert such rights against other third parties not covered by the covenant. As a result, trademark owners should consider these issues before they initiate trademark infringement litigation, particularly when the alleged infringement is limited in scope and the infringement is not seriously impacting the trademark owner's business.
If you have any questions or would like more information on the issues discussed in this LawFlash, please contact any of the following Morgan Lewis attorneys:
Washington, D.C.
Ron N. Dreben
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Thomas M. Peterson
[1]. Already, LLC v. Nike, Inc., No. 11-982 (U.S. Jan. 9, 2013), available here.
[2]. Id. at 2.
[3]. Id. at 5–6.


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By Barney Zwartz
Victoria's clergy sex abuse inquiry is likely to recommend at least six state laws be reformed to hold the Catholic Church to account, including removal of the legal ''shield'' it has used to avoid being sued by victims.
Chairwoman Georgie Crozier said the committee already had a good idea of the sort of recommendations it would make. Fairfax Media understands the committee is eager for several laws to be changed this year.
The Victorian inquiry does not need to await the outcome of the royal commission into the sexual abuse of children, set up by the Gillard government and yet to take formal evidence. Ms Crozier said she expected the state inquiry to be of great use to the commission.
Enabling the church to be sued, mandatory reporting of suspected abuse, concealing crimes and extending the statute of limitations for child abuse are all issues that could be dealt with by the Victorian government.
Ms Crozier said at the first hearing for 2013 that the committee now had a good idea of the terrain its report would cover, based on the wide evidence it had already heard. The inquiry is expected to recommend amending the Property Trust Act to halt the so-called Ellis defence, named for a case in New South Wales, which the church uses to say it is not actually an entity and therefore there is nothing for victims to sue.
Anti-abuse campaigner Anthony Foster said the Victorian inquiry would be more important than the royal commission in holding the church to account and improving the plight of victims.
''Much of what the Catholic Church has done has been terrible, but some of it has been done within the framework of the laws of our society, and it's the state laws that need to be changed,'' he said.
The corporations sole legislation, which sets churches apart from companies, could also be reformed. Company chief executives are responsible at law for actions by their predecessors, but bishops are not accountable for the actions of previous bishops.
Many witnesses have mentioned mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse, which applies to such professionals as teachers and doctors. The Victorian Catholic Church has recognised some form of this is inevitable by advocating a version of it for the first time in its submission to the inquiry.
But witnesses have said mandatory reporting must be to the police, because it involves suspected crimes, rather than to the Department of Human Services, as in the case of doctors and teachers. Witnesses have been divided on whether mandatory reporting should also apply to the confessional, which the church insists is sacrosanct and inviolable.
Witnesses have also suggested that the statute of limitations must be amended because it can take decades before victims of child sex abuse can admit what happened to them and seek redress.
Lawyer and advocate Judy Courtin said vicarious liability was another important area. Under the present common-law arrangements, the church has argued there is no employer-employee relationship between bishop and priest, although this was recently rejected by a British court.
In Victoria, concealing abuse is not an offence under the Crimes Act, as it is in NSW, although it comes under the common-law offence of misprision, and the inquiry is likely to recommend formalising it.
The committee is also likely to consider the church's internal procedures for dealing with abuse complaints, under which not one offence has been reported to police although the church admits settling 618 claims in the past 16 years.
Witnesses have suggested there is a conflict of interest in the church's investigator, Peter O'Callaghan, QC, calling himself an independent investigator when he is paid by the church.


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The trickle of smart glasses entering enterprises on the faces of employees this year will become a flood in the years ahead.
As the use of smart glasses becomes more ubiquitous in the workplace, the challenges for IT departments and, indeed, for enterprises generally will grow.
And while the future of smart glasses is just now coming into focus, the unexpected consequences of this trend remain unclear.
What I believe is certain is that smart glasses are coming, they're going mainstream, and very few organisations are ready for what's coming. Let's take a look.
Apple Glasses
In order to go mainstream, smart glasses have to look like ordinary eyewear. Apple is working on smart glasses designed to go mainstream.
Apple has many patents around smart glasses, but the most recently filed patent application addresses this issue. The idea is to create a lens within a lens — one lens for seeing the real world and the other for seeing the virtual world. The approach, called a catadioptric optical system, would enable Apple glasses to project very large virtual content from a very small projector.
The patent specifies the use of both outward-facing and inward-facing cameras in the glasses, which could be used for both gaze tracking and the mapping of the real world for the placement and anchoring of virtual objects.
Apple products always invite speculation by designers. Just this week, designer Taeyeon Kim posted some impressive (if overly fashionable) Apple Glasses concepts.
Samsung Galaxy Glass
Meanwhile, Samsung recently filed both a patent and a trademark that suggest a Samsung smart glasses product.
The company's new patent in Korea describes "computerized vision-assisting eyewear," which could be the long-rumored Samsung "Galaxy Glass" product.
Samsung recently filed a trademark for a logo that would represent "computer software for analyzing and configuring vision-assisting eyewear" and also "computerized vision-assisting eyewear consisting of a camera, computer and display to capture, process, and present images."
That's how a trademark lawyer might describe smart glasses.
Intel Vaunt
Intel is working on smart glasses it's calling Vaunt glasses. They look close enough to regular glasses, but they do a few "smart things" that ordinary glasses don't do.
Importantly, Vaunt glasses project visual information directly onto the back of the wearer's right retina using low-powered laser technology. (It's literally a "retina" display.)
Intel's glasses don't have cameras, speakers or microphones, although future shipping versions reportedly may contain microphones. They're non-intrusive, visual and silent.
The wearer sees icons and red text, but only when looking down. Otherwise, the visuals are not visible.
Vaunt glasses should be able to provide walking directions, smartphone notifications and other "lite" forms of information.
They should get 18 hours of battery life, according to Intel.
The glasses can work with prescription or nonprescription glasses. They come in a variety of styles.
Intel plans to launch a beta program for the glasses this year.
VSP Level
VSP Global this week launched what it's calling Level smart glasses. Think of Level glasses as fitness trackers. Instead of a watch or fitness band, however, they're glasses. Kind of like "Face FitBits."
The glasses contain a magnetometer, an accelerometer and a gyroscope, and they track movement, from which the included smartphone app can figure out distance, steps, calories burned and other quantified self data. They also contain a "Find My Glasses" feature.
I believe the most interesting aspect of VSP Level glasses is that they'll be sold in the normal channel that serves optometry offices, starting in April in limited cities, including Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Minneapolis and Washington, D.C.
This is the future of smart glasses. "Smarts" will be a checkbox item whenever you get prescription glasses.
What are smart glasses, anyway?
Pundits throw around terms that sometimes confuse more than illuminate.
For example, high-end devices such as Microsoft's Hololens and Magic Leap's One glasses are described as "augmented reality glasses" or "mixed reality glasses." They're also called "headsets" or "goggles."
This category of device will for the foreseeable future be expensive, bulky and obtrusive. They will not be products for walking around, but instead will be used in controlled settings. They will specialize in high-definition, 3D virtual animated objects that appear to float in space.
Smart glasses are different, and when they go mainstream they will look almost like ordinary glasses or sunglasses, but will contain batteries and processors.
Smart glasses are for everyday, all-day wear. And their purposes are far less specific in their application. For example, smart glasses may only provide audio, or even blinking-light notifications. Or they could offer heads-up or low-res augmented reality. They might even simply gather data, or offer battery-powered, on-the-fly conversion to sunglasses.
In other words, smart glasses won't be a single thing. They could be tailored to individuals' needs and do anything. And there will be a category of smart glasses for everyone.
Many users will wear minimalist glasses with microphones and bone conduction speakers for interacting with their virtual assistants.
Others will want glasses that function tomorrow like smartwatches do today: offering notifications and limited control over music, podcasts and phone calls.
Still others will do all that plus automatically or manually take pictures and videos, or perform rudimentary AR.
Even blind people will wear smart glasses. A Japanese researcher is crowdfunding "Oton Glass" glasses for blind, visually impaired, dyslexic and others that translate text into voice.
In fact, it's this extreme variety of function, combined with the necessity of eyewear, that will provide the greatest challenge.
Why BYOG will be such a challenge
We're facing the prospect of many or most employees carrying semi-concealed sensor bundles (sensors that include cameras and microphones) that connect either via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or cellular networks and that track location.
It will be difficult or impossible to know which sensors and components are built into which glasses.
And in any event, the banishment of these sensor bundles will be extremely difficult, since they're also required for vision and therefore the basic performance of employees' jobs. You can ask meeting attendees or R&D visitors to leave their phones in a box outside, but you can't do that with glasses.
In addition to threats to trade secrets and heightened exposure to hacking, there will be new issues with illicit recordings and captured data between and among employees and by partners, customers and others.
Nobody has the answers to these challenges. But companies that want to stay ahead of the game need to start figuring out solutions sooner rather than later.


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CVT 39: Giri on Timman, Simple Chess by Harikrishna, the Windmill and Rook vs Bishop
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The southwest Pacific island of New Caledonia, covering approximately 17,000 km², has a remarkably diverse and highly endemic flora for an area its size, with an estimated 3,137 native species of angiosperms and gymnosperms (79% endemic), representing about 763 genera (14% endemic), and 169 families (3% endemic). Numerous relict endemic lineages occur on the island, such as 14 gymnosperm genera, with 44 species (98% endemic) representing 7% of the world's total, and members of many primitive angiosperm groups (e.g., Winteraceae, Amborellaceae, Monimiaceae, Annonaceae, Chloranthaceae, etc.). New Caledonia separated from Australia about 65 MYBP and reached its present position around 50 MYBP; during the Paleocene and middle Eocene peridotites covered the island resulting in ultrabasic substrates that still occupy about a third of the surface. Many members of the late Cretaceous - early Tertiary Gondwanan flora survived in New Caledonia's equable climate but were eliminated in Australia due to increasingly dry conditions. The island's geography and climate today have resulted in a wide range of vegetation types; recent studies show that specific endemism is highest in maquis vegetation (91%), a characteristic scrub-like heath on ultrabasics, and in rain forests (87%), which occur both on and off these substrates; endemism is lower in the remnant stands of sclerophyllous forest (59%), which are New Caledonia's most threatened habitat type, covering only 2% of the its original approximately 4,500 km2. An estimated 50 species face impending extinction or have already been lost from the New Caledonian flora. The threat to the flora and vegetation in the other principal habitats is currently much lower than in most tropical areas because of the island's comparative political and economic stability, but this situation could easily change.


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Comment: Gay marriage has its queer critics, too
By Alex Gabriel
"Look," said David Cameron last week, in a voice much like Tony Blair's when grilled on Newsnight. "I'm in favour of gay marriage, because I'm a massive supporter of marriage, and I don't want gay people to be excluded from a great institution."
The comments were met with gushing praise from self-described progressives, and no doubt too with fountains of gay cash. In the 90 minutes following Barack Obama's statement, "I think same sex couples should be able to get married", a million pink dollars poured straight into his campaign for re-election. Cameron, ever the businessman, has clearly found a rhetoric which sells.
That's not to say, of course, that his stance here is purely mercenary. "I don't support gay marriage despite being a Conservative," he told us in his conference speech last year, "I support gay marriage because I'm a Conservative." If any sincere, well-meant critique of the project has been drowned out, it belongs to those of us on the queer left who see the idea as deeply engrained in regressive Cameroon politics.
This June, American activists founded OccuPride, asking: "Why are we fighting for marriage equality while trans, queer, and gender non-conforming people are dying, losing their jobs and being locked up at dramatically higher rates than straight, cisgender populations? Why are we fighting for a few more documented monogamous couples to be let into an exclusionary institution instead of demanding health care, immigration [rights], respect, and autonomy for everyone?"
Three months before, the British Coalition for Equal Marriage released its 'Homecoming' advert. The video shows blue-eyed, milky-skinned soldiers disembarking from a plane, as wives and children wave Union Jacks like Bonfire Night sparklers. One proposes to his male partner on bended knee, accompanied by soaring piano music and the caption, 'All men can be heroes… all men can be husbands'.
If this is queer liberation, it's the Enoch Powell version, complete with imperialist drum-beating, sexism and an all-white cast. (Though admittedly, far better skincare.)
To many of us, 'equal marriage' is an oxymoron. As vague abstractions like 'acceptance', 'hate' and 'being who you are' creep into the language of campaigners, robbing it of its political weight, let's remind ourselves equality and marriage have rarely intertwined. I don't just mean forced marriages: I mean financial security has evaded those who don't opt for 'commitment', to the extent that single parents remain hardship-stricken; that social approval has as well, to the point of Ed Miliband's press-appeasing wedding last year to Justine Thornton, when they'd been quite happily unmarried for years before.
Both Christian B&Bs to turn away gay couples in recent years did so because they were unmarried, meaning if no knot had been tied, heterosexual couples were denied a room at the inn as well. In Cameron's Britain, too, tax benefits for the married – that is, heavier taxes for everybody else – are on the table. The function of marriage has always been to convey higher status, dividing lovers into haves and have-nots. Offer it to those in gay partnerships, and no part of that changes. 'Equal marriage' is rather like 'Equal first class': it only means anything if things are better for the people in it.
A social movement for the 'right to marry' now seems ironic, when activists last century spent so long pursuing their right not to do so. That doesn't mean that choosing to get married is wrong, but it does mean Cameron's position is unsurprising: for a 'supporter of marriage' who wants to put 'commitment' back at society's core after our dalliance with free love and permissiveness, a chorus of angry people demanding wedding rings is more than slightly convenient.
The argument is made that some people must marry to live with their partners, or to access medicine in countries like the US, whose healthcare system ours increasingly resembles. The obvious response is that everyone deserves medical treatment without having to pay, and border control shouldn't keep people apart – just as, if people want to raise children alone, the public purse should enable them to, and if those in relationships need somewhere to stay, religious beliefs shouldn't stand in their paths. These are the demands of human rights campaigners, and they stand at odds with conservative presumptions.
Wouldn't marriage's death as a state institution, including for straight people, be the best solution? By all means let people 'commit', in front of priests or otherwise, but leave weddings as ceremonies with no legal status. Scrap the civil register; make no distinction in the state's eyes between married and unmarried citizens. The British Humanist Association, a key supporter of C4EM, seeks legal recognition for marriages its celebrants perform, but secularism is about ending, not emulating, certain belief sets' privilege. And likewise, shouldn't the gay community's aim be equal treatment of all relationships, not the inclusion of same-gender ones among those which get tax breaks, media approval and B&B rooms?
Brendan O'Neill has a shadow of a point when he says no one was water-cannoned for gay marriage. (There's an expression, I think, about stopped clocks.) For a long time, and like proposals for LGBT military service, the idea was extremely controversial among queer activists, and Andrew Sullivan's Virtually Normal, one of the major books to support it in the 1990s, was infamous before it was famous. Very quickly, and helped along by a press narrative of well-behaved gays who want to wed and evil homophobes who want to stop them, marriage reform has become a whole population's defining issue, such that no organised queer critique of it from the days of Bash Back! really remains.
Even those with nothing against the notion of gay marriage are troubled sometimes by its monopoly on coverage. Even if introduced, its effective availability will be restricted to those fortunate gay couples who don't risk violence by expressing mutual desire; in my first year at Oxford, the city – hardly reputed to be plagued with unrest – played host to almost 20 homophobic incidents, while many more were likely unreported.
The Albert Kennedy Trust, set up in 1989 to tackle queer youth homelessness, received 1,542 calls for help in London and Manchester in 2010; in the NHS, doctors use gender-policing against transgender patients who challenge their definitions of life as a man or woman, and trans* individuals are routinely refused employment by companies who brand them disturbing. These, like the epidemics of bullying and self-harm among queer teens, are less luxurious and more pressing issues than marriage.
Of course we can address all forms of bigotry, but the persistent labelling of gay marriage's introduction as the final step to LGBT equality – including by reliable leftists like Owen Jones who should know better – suggests the worrying possibility all other crises will be forgotten once it's achieved.
That's not a turn of events I want to witness. I understand not everyone has reservations on marriage reform, but for goodness sake let's aim for better discourse.
Alex Gabriel is a student, and writes on skepticism, queer politics and the left. He frequently blogs at heresyclub.com and sosogay.co.uk.
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If you want to catch some of the festivities this Madden NFL 10 week, look no further than ESPN's Monday Night Football on Thursday. (Yes, I know it sounds weird.)
You could see this coming from a mile away. I mean you have Larry Fitzgerald and Troy Polamalu on the cover and you have a Super Bowl rematch between the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers that night. Oh yeah, it also happens to be the eve of Madden NFL 10's release. It's almost as if they planned this or something …
And if you're sick of Madden NFL 10 already, I suggest not turning on your TV because the game's pretty much going to be everywhere. ESPN 2, the NFL Network and VH1 will be airing the Madden NFL 10 Pigskin Pro-Am Game between, a flag football match-up pitting old players against celebrities all week. Spike TV will broadcast its Madden NFL Kickoff show at midnight on Wednesday.
Lastly, Wal-Mart will have a promotion, in which you pick up a Gillettte Fusion NFL team logo razor (with a code for a strategy guide) and an $8 bouquet of roses so your significant other won't kill you for spending 24-hours straight with the game.
That's a lot of Madden. You'd almost think that Madden NFL is bigger than the NFL itself.


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By Bryan Alexander | USA Today
Tom Hanks is lifting the curtain on his and wife Rita Wilson's battle with the coronavirus that sent out global shock waves as they became the first celebrity couple to test positive for the disease last month.
Speaking during a Sunday interview with National Defense Radio Show, Hanks, 63, said he had "some body aches and was very fatigued" during medical isolation in the air-pressurized room of an Australian hospital. Wilson, 63, his wife of 32 years, had more serious symptoms.
"Rita went through a tougher time than I did," Hanks said. "She had a much higher fever and she had some other symptoms. She lost her sense of taste and smell. She got absolutely no joy from food for a better part of three weeks."
Hanks said Wilson's condition, and side-effects from the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine administered for her high fever, led to powerful bouts of nausea.
More: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson are back in the U.S. after coronavirus diagnoses
"She was so nauseous she had to crawl on the floor from the bed to the facilities," said Hanks, "and it lasted a while."
Hanks recalled attempting do a regular routine of sit-ups, stretches and floor exercises in the hospital.
"I was wiped after 12 minutes. I laid down in my hospital bed and just slept," said Hanks.
After a member of the medical team came to check on him, he recalled, "I said, 'I just had the weirdest thing. I just tried to do basic stretches and exercises on the floor and I couldn't even get halfway through.' And she looked at me through her glasses like she was talking to the dumbest human being. And she said, 'You have COVID-19.' "
Hanks says he doesn't know how he and Wilson contracted the virus while Hanks was in Australia shooting Baz Luhrmann's Elvis Presley movie. (Hanks will portray manager Col. Tom Parker.) Hanks said most of the hospital isolation was need for monitoring precautions and to ensure he and Wilson did not spread the disease.
After two weeks of isolation, the couple was able to return to their home in Los Angeles, where they have remained.
Hanks stepped out as the first ever host of a remote "Saturday Night Live" from his kitchen last week.
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Pro-K Sample Collections: Flight Engineer (FE)-5 Wiseman collected urine and blood samples for his Flight Day 30 Pro-K session. Pro-K investigates dietary countermeasures to lessen bone loss of astronauts. It proposes that a flight diet with a decreased ratio of animal protein to potassium will lead to decreased loss of bone mineral. Pro K has impacts on the definition of nutritional requirements and development of food systems for future exploration missions and could yield a method of counteracting bone loss that would have virtually no risk of side effects.
Node 3 (N3) Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly Maintenance: Today, Commander (CDR) Swanson and FE-6 Gerst cleaned N3 CDRA desiccant/adsorbent bed 202. They separated the two halves of the bed, cleaned the filter, installed the bed into the frame and re-installed the frame into the rack. The N3 CDRA is now back in operation. The maintenance was required because the pressure drop across the bed has been increasing and impacting CDRA performance.
Waste & Hygiene Compartment (WHC): Over the past week the WHC 'check separator' light illuminated numerous times, an indication that the pump separator would probably fail in the near future. On Sunday, the crew replaced the pump separator and the WHC has been operating nominally since. Today, Wiseman replaced the WHC pre-treat tank and placed tick marks along the hose to help observe fluid flow during activation and assist in estimating pre-treat dosing.
Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) Fluids Control and Pump Assembly (FCPA): The UPA shutdown over the weekend due to a high FCPA motor current. This signature was seen at end of life for the last 2 FCPAs. Two unsuccessful attempts were made to restart the motor. The crew is scheduled to replace the FCPA tomorrow.
On Board Traning (OBT) Crew Health Care System (CHeCS) Emergency Health Maintenance System (HMS) Contingency Drill Training: Gerst, Wiseman and FE-4 Suraev conducted this OBT/drill which gives crewmembers the opportunity to work as a team to resolve a simulated medical emergency onboard ISS. The training refreshes their memory of the on-orbit stowage and deployment locations, equipment use, and procedures.
Today's Planned Tasks
- RSS1, 2, Reboot / r/g 1009 [Complete]
- Laptop RS1(2) Reboot [Complete]
- SM ПСС (Caution & Warning Panel) [Complete]
- [МНР-НС] [СМ-У] receptacle inspection behind [ACУ] pnl 139 [Complete]
- МО-8. Configuration setup [Complete]
- PROK – Urine Sample Collection Operations [Complete]
- Body Mass Measurement [Complete]
- HRF – Urine Sample Collection Operations [Complete]
- HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion Operations [Complete]
- HRF – Blood Sample Collection [Complete]
- МО-8. Closeout ops [Complete]
- HRF – Assistance in Blood Sample Collection [Complete]
- Daily planning conference (S-band) [Complete]
- HRF – Refrigerated Centrifuge set up [Complete]
- Daily planning conference (S-band) [Complete]
- THE GREAT BEGINNING. "Ask ISS crew" show. Script review r/g 5992 [Complete]
- CDRA – BED deinstall [Complete]
- HRF – blood samples retrieval and Refrigerated Centrifuge power down [Complete]
- HRF – Sample MELFI Insertion Operations [Complete]
- HMS On-Orbit Hearing Assessment with EarQ Software Setup and Test [Complete]
- ECON-L. Observations and photo [Complete]
- HRF – closeout ops and stowage [Complete]
- HRF – urine sample collection [Complete]
- VIRU. Battery charge (start) / r/g 5256 [Complete]
- СТТС functional check [Complete]
- OBSTANOVKA. Data arrays downlink from БСПН to laptop RSS1 БСПН (start) / r/g 5161 [Complete]
- HRF – Sample Stowage in MELFI [Complete]
- IFM – Vacuum Cleaner Bag Remove and Replace [Complete]
- Elektron-VM pressurization prior to activation [Complete]
- Connect ЭЛ28-2 cnctr to Н2line ЭЛ27cnctr. [Complete]
- CDRA – Node 3 mesh filter removal and cleaning [Complete]
- VHF 2д (УКВ2д) comm check from SM [Complete]
- СТТС functional check (Low Frequency band check and ПА and VHF receivers check). [Complete]
- СТТС comm assets switchover to a backup set r/g 5985 steps 5,6 [Complete]
- VHF 2д (УКВ2д) comm check from SM (using backup comm sets) [Complete]
- Columbus equipment set up for PAO [Complete]
- Nanoracks Platform-3 Enable [Complete]
- Crew prep for PAO [Complete]
- HRF – Stowage of Urine Collection Equipment [Complete]
- PAO event [Complete]
- SOZh maintenance [Complete]
- ECON-L. Observations and photo [Complete]
- JRNL – Long entry [Complete]
- OBT CHeCS Contingency Drill Training[Complete]
- SPLANH. Prep for experiment/ r/g 5988 [Complete]
- Stowing equipment for disposal in PROGRESS # 427(DC1) and IMS update / r/g 5987 [Complete]
- CDRA – Node 3 mesh filter repairs [Complete]
- Pro K Diet And PH Log Photos [Complete]
- OBSTANOVKA. (termination) / r/g 5161 [Complete]
- VIRU. Battery charge (term) / r/g 5256 [Complete]
- VIRU. Software update. r/g 5993 [Complete]
- Connect TV camera КЛ-153М to MRM1 TV system/ r/g 5986 [Complete]
- HMS On-Orbit Hearing Assessment with EarQ Software Setup and Test [Complete]
- VIRU. Equipment setup for RELAXATION experiment. r/g 5995 [Complete]
- CDRA – Reassembly [Complete]
- VIRU. Setting equipment parameters for RELAXATION.r/g 5995 [Complete]
- VIRU. Earth observation as part of RELAXATION. r/g 5995 [Complete]
- VIRU. Close-out ops and post RELAXATION equipment deinstall. r/g 5995 [Complete]
- IFM – Vacuum Cleaner Bag Stowage [Complete]
- HMS – Vision Test [Complete]
- VIRU. Filling out VURU registration sheet and downlink/ r/g 5995 [Complete]
- HMS – Vision Test [Complete]
- HMS – Vision Questionnaire [Complete]
Task List
- BASS GN2 ops parts 1-4
- ARED Cylinder Evac
- WHC KTO replace\
- WHC EDV-Y R&R [Complete]
- Roscosmos Report
- Econ photo
- Uragan photo
- CSA CP data download [Complete]
- ARED bag audit
- COL DOSIS cable repair
- 3DA1 cam ops
- 55P trash gather
- APEX kit relocate [Complete]
- ESA EPO flying demo
- ESA Laptop HDD R&R [Complete]
- Hatch Seal inspect parts 1-3
- Cupola window clan
- LHA JPM 1OA8 R&R [Complete]
- NOD1O2 audit [Complete]
- Voice quality survey
- Nominal commanding
Three-Day Look Ahead:
- Tuesday, 07/01: FCPA R&R, Hatch seal inspection, OBT emergency SIM, ISS video survey
- Wednesday, 07/02: WHC piping R&R, OCT, BASS
- Thursday, 07/03: BASS, Ultrasound scans, CFE bubbly, JEM HD Encoder Part 1
QUICK ISS Status – Environmental Control Group:
Component | Status |
Elektron | On |
Vozdukh | Manual |
[СКВ] 1 – SM Air Conditioner System ("SKV1") | On |
[СКВ] 2 – SM Air Conditioner System ("SKV2") | Off |
Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Lab | Standby |
Carbon Dioxide Removal Assembly (CDRA) Node 3 | Operate |
Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Lab | Stop |
Major Constituent Analyzer (MCA) Node 3 | Operate |
Oxygen Generation Assembly (OGA) | Process |
Urine Processing Assembly (UPA) | Standby |
Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Lab | Off |
Trace Contaminant Control System (TCCS) Node 3 | Full Up |


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Falls in Older Adults
Did you know that falls are the leading cause of non-fatal and fatal injuries for adults age 65 years and older? Falls can lead to reduced mobility, limited activity and even death. Just one fall can be a life changer – it can be the beginning of the end of your independence.
A few fast facts about falls.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each and every year:
- One in three older adults fall and one in five falls causes a serious injury
2.5 million older adults are treated in emergency departments and more than 700,000 are hospitalized for an injury sustained from a fall - More than 95% of hip fractures are caused by falling with at least 250,000 older adults are hospitalized for hip fractures
- Falls are the most common cause of traumatic brain injuries
- More than $34 billion in medical costs are spent
What causes you to fall?
In a nutshell, you can fall when you experience something that challenges your strength, balance and your ability to remain upright. Many conditions – physical, environmental and situational – can increase your risk to fall. Risk factors include:
Physical Conditions:
- Poor vision
- Medications
- Foot pain / numbness or shoes with slippery soles
- Lower body weakness or lack of muscle strength
- Chronic health conditions such as Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease
Environmental Conditions:
- Poor lighting
- Lack of stair railings or grab bars in the bathroom
- Loose throw rugs or clutter on the floor
- Slippery or uneven floors
- Uneven or broken sidewalks, walkways or steps
Situational Conditions:
An occasional or temporary event – period of low blood pressure, pet pulling on a leash suddenly, wind or rain storm
Most falls are caused by a combination of risk factors. It's simple, the more risk factors you have, the more likely you are to fall. The good news – you can reduce your risk or prevent a fall altogether. Here are a few simple tips:
- Talk to your doctor about evaluating your fall risks and what you can do to decrease your risk.
- Exercise regularly to improve strength and balance.
- Have your vision checked.
- Talk to your pharmacist about your medications.
- Make your home safer by installing grab bars or handrails, removing clutter and loose rugs and installing additional light sources or brighter light bulbs.
- Wear shoes with low or flat heels and nonslip soles, no slippers.
Since falls in older adults are so common, there's an abundance of information available online — here are just a few articles that may help you stay on your feet.
Merck Manual: Falls in the Elderly http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/older-people%E2%80%99s-health-issues/falls/falls-in-the-elderly
AgingCare.com: 6 Things That Cause the Elderly to Fall
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Preventing Falls Among Older Adults


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The Independent National Electoral Commission has said that the polls will go ahead as planned, despite violent clashes Saturday between supporters of the leading presidential candidates that led to the deaths of at least 4 people in Kinshasa.
Having won the first democratically held elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006, President Joseph Kabila is seeking a second term in office to consolidate the "gains" of the last five years.
Mr. Kabila has touted DR Congo's economic "progress" since the last elections, with the country showing a positive growth rates for the last two years, "despite a difficult international economic environment."
The ruling majority has also bragged about most of DR Congo's debt being cancelled by international donors earlier this year after the government met requirements under the International Monetary Fund's Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC).
During the campaign, Mr. Kabila asked voters for more time to implement his signature infrastructure and modernization plan, known as the Cinq Chantiers, mainly funded by a massive 9$ billion deal signed with China in 2008.
Opponents have called Mr. Kabila's economic prowess fictional and disconnected with the Congolese people's daily realities.
Whatever the economic growth rates for the last two years, they say the "gains" have not trickled down to the population. They point to other economic statistics such as DR Congo being ranked last on the UNDP's Human Development Report in 2011, and most of the Congolese still living in poverty, despite DR Congo being one of the richest countries in the world in terms of natural resources.
The two leading opposition presidential candidates, Etienne Tshisekedi and Vital Kamerhe, have said they can do better and have vowed if elected to fight against the endemic corruption and lack of transparency seen under Mr. Kabila's watch.
During the campaign, Mr. Tshisekedi called president Kabila "the biggest thief in the world" and worse than Mobutu Sese Seko. Mr. Kamerhe accused Mr. Kabila of lying about his "negative" economic record.
So, after a campaign charged with claims and counter-claims, it's time for the voices of the Congolese people to be heard. Only they know who is telling the truth and who is lying.


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Fast-growing HyperActive Technologies announced that Mark Groesbeckjoined the company as eastern regional sales manager. In this role, he will provide advanced drive-thru and kitchen management solutions for the restaurant industry, says Dan Villas, vice president of sales at HyperActive Technologies.
Groesbeckhas served the restaurant market for more than 20 years in a variety of leading sales and account management positions, including most recently for Detroit-based MIST Innovations, where he successfully developed a comprehensive dealer distribution network to drive market entry for new products.
At HyperActive Technologies, Groesbeck will work with the company's dealer network and also with the leading restaurant brands to ensure their adoption of HyperActive Technologies' drive-thru products.
The company's product suite includes:
· HyperView, an order confirmation display (OCD);
· HyperViewPE, which makes use of a single CAT5e cable for power supply and is ideal for use in rugged outdoor weather conditions;
· DriveTime Cloud product, a drive-thru system that harnesses the benefits of cloud computing technology to monitor, collect, and report critical performance data;
· QTimer, a drive-thru management system.
Villas says HyperActive Technologies is rapidly growing because it provides the most affordable and reliable drive-thru management systems in the quick-service industry—delivering OCDs, drive-thru management systems, and enterprise reporting software that provide the highest lifetime value to help operators increase throughput and decrease cost.
"Our new products, such as HyperViewPE and DriveTime Cloud, are the most advanced and most reliable on the market, delivering the highest lifetime value and lowest cost of ownership for restaurant operators," Villas says. "Mark's addition to our team is indicative of the company's commitment to having the industry's best talent represent the industry's most intelligent drive-thru tools, which help current and new clients improve their speed of service and profitability."


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HHS mandate allows minors free contraception, sterilization
Saturday, September 29, 2012
By Kevin J. Jones
Washington D.C., Sep 25, 2012 / 04:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Minor children on their parents' health care plans will have free coverage of sterilization and contraception, including abortion-causing drugs, under the controversial HHS mandate – and depending on the state, they can obtain access without parental consent.
Matt Bowman, senior counsel for the religious liberty legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, said the mandate "tramples parental rights" because it requires them to "pay for and sponsor coverage of abortifacients, sterilization, contraception and education in favor of the same for their own children."
The Department of Health and Human Services ruled in January 2012 that most employers who have 50 or more employees must provide the coverage as "preventive care" for "all women with reproductive capacity."
The mandate also requires the coverage for beneficiaries, including minors, on the affected health plans, Bowman told CNA Sept. 20. That means that a minor on her parents' plan could be sterilized if she finds a doctor willing to perform the procedure.
"She can be sterilized at no cost," Bowman stated. "Whether her parents will know and/or consent might differ by state. But the Guttmacher Institute and other abortion advocates explicitly advocated for this mandated coverage of minors so that access without parental involvement might be able to increase."
The Guttmacher Institute, in a Sept. 1 briefing on state policies, said that an increase in minors' access to reproductive health care over the last 30 years shows a broader recognition that "while parental involvement in minors' health care decisions is desirable, many minors will not avail themselves of important services if they are forced to involve their parents."
The institute, the former research arm of abortion provider Planned Parenthood, said that 26 states and the District of Columbia allow all minors 12 years and older to consent to contraceptive services. At least one state, Oregon, allows 15-year-olds to consent to sterilization.
CNA repeatedly contacted the Department of Health and Human Services for comment but did not receive a response.
Employers who do not comply with the mandate face fines of $100 per employee per day. Large employers like the University of Notre Dame could face annual fines in the millions.
There are presently 30 lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate in federal court on religious freedom grounds. The 80 plaintiffs include Catholic dioceses, universities, health care systems and charities.
The mandate's narrow religious exemption would not apply to many Catholic institutions, despite Catholics' moral and religious objections to the covered procedures and drugs. Several Protestant institutions have also challenged the law, citing objections to abortion-causing drugs.
The Obama administration has said it will accommodate some religious objections, though the details of those arrangements remain unclear.
Bowman rejected the idea that the Obama administration's proposed accommodations will affect the coverage of minors.
"The accommodation does not even claim it will change this part of the mandate," he said.
Legislation to allow all employers with religious or moral objections to opt out of the coverage failed in the U.S. Senate earlier this year.
Defenders of the Obama administration have depicted resistance to the mandate as a "war on women."
At the same time, a grassroots campaign called The Women Speak for Themselves has garnered the support of 34,000 women. The group says those backing the mandate are trying to "shout down anyone who disagrees" with them by invoking "women's health," while ignoring the negative physical and social effects of contraception for women.